Royal Hotel, The
When I posted my rewatch review of Psycho, I banged on about Roger Ebert’s old adage that movies are machines for empathy. Never has that been more true than in The Royal Hotel… a movie that feels aimless and had … Continue reading
When I posted my rewatch review of Psycho, I banged on about Roger Ebert’s old adage that movies are machines for empathy. Never has that been more true than in The Royal Hotel… a movie that feels aimless and had … Continue reading
Dumb Money is an aspirational and maybe delusional bit of rabble rousing that covers the Gamestop stock pump that (temporarily) freaked out the Masters of the Universe in the stock market a couple years ago. It’s a fictional account with … Continue reading
Past Lives is a marvelous, wistful, and thoughtfully romantic film that’s easily going in my top ten of the year. I thought it was about immigrants returning to their homeland and finding out they no longer fit in with the … Continue reading
Even if Amazon’s A Million Miles Away isn’t in the pantheon of great grounded space flight movies, I’m still a sucker for what it does. I love realistic films about space travel… Apollo 13, The Right Stuff, Gravity, The Martian, … Continue reading
The Adults is a movie that shares some somber, moody, and dethatched DNA with Charlie Theron’s much better Young Adult. Here we have a movie whose title is half true (the “the” is accurate). It’s about three siblings who have … Continue reading
Sitting in Bars with Cake is an unusual title for a movie with a mildly familiar premise. It starts unique though… two besties bake cake and take them to bars to meet guys. But one of them gets cancer and … Continue reading
I’m a little perplexed about this abstraction of a flick. It’s set in a grounded future where humanity has distanced itself from nature, therapy is handled by AI, and some people carry their unborn babies in external pods like oversized … Continue reading
Golda is set in Israel during their 1973 Yom Kippur war with Egypt and Syria. This is a conflict for which I had vanishingly little knowledge… which makes a movie about it potentially interesting. The film follows Israeli Prime Minster … Continue reading
Well, extra credit to Happy Madison (and Netflix) for producing a thoughtful YA teen comedy/drama that’s not too crass and not too wholesome. Call it realistic, call it believable, call it not as good as other movies of its ilk. … Continue reading
Jules is an odd duck of a movie. In some ways, it’s kind of adjacent to a Wes Anderson movie… but not as artsy (you’d never confuse a single frame of it with anything Anderson shoots). It is similar in … Continue reading